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Winners of the Game Developers Choice Awards and Independent Games Festival revealed

Overwatch walks away with the GDCA Game of the Year Award and Quadrilateral Cowboy takes away the IGF Seumas McNally Grand Prize.

The 17th annual Game Developers Choice Awards and 2017 Independent Games Festival Awards took place in San Francisco last night and the results are in. Both events took place as a part of GDC 2017. Sure, we’re two months into 2017 but that doesn’t mean the gaming industry has forgotten about 2016.

Overwatch walked away with the Game of the Year award which may not come as a surprise to many. Overwatch also walked away with the Best Design award. As for nominations, Playdead’s Inside lead the foray with six nominations, including the Best Audio, Best Design, Best Narrative, Best Visual Art, and Innovation Award categories.

Overwatch and Firewatch followed closely with five nominations each and Uncharted 4 soon after with four. All four games mentioned above, with the addition of Bethesda’s Dishonored 2, were nominations for the Game of the Year award.

The Seumas McNally Grand Prize is the top prize for the Independent Games Festival. Blendo Games’ Quadrilateral Cowboy walked away with this one. Nominees for the prize included Inside, Stardew Valley, Hyper Light Drifter, Overcooked and Event[0].

Without any further ado, here are the nominees and winners for the Game Developers Choice Awards and IGF 2017.

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